Fadi Kattan’s new Toronto restaurant offers a welcome to Palestine
A sampling of dishes at Louf (Photo: Jack Dodson/©Louf restaurant) The Palestinians of Toronto and their friends have enthusiastically welcomed Louf, the newest venture of globe-trotting, Palestinian celebrity chef Fadi Kattan. Situated in a cute house on...
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: As MLK Day Falls on Muhammad Ali’s Birthday This Year, We Recognize Black Muslims Who Contributed to the Civil Rights Movement
Classrooms everywhere last Friday were playing Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, “I Have a Dream,” speech, the iconic speech that is an oral legacy that has lasting global resonance. The content of that speech shouldn’t be seen as simplifying the mission and those behind the...
Martin Luther King Jr. and Muhammad Ali’s Surprising Secret Friendship
In 1961, an athlete named Cassius Clay prepared for a bout with Duke Sabedong in Las Vegas. The 10-round boxing match was the young boxer’s seventh, but his swagger and charm had already gained him admirers. That day, the man who would soon become Muhammad...
Milwaukee Muslims play key roles in the city’s 38th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration
First place winner (grades 9-10) Leila Muhammad of Ronald Reagan IB High School said, “I must speak so that my ancestors' sacrifices and struggles will not be in vain.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s calls for civil rights and his methods of peaceful...
Man gets genetically-modified pig heart in world-first transplant
Surgeon Bartley P Griffith pictured with David Bennett earlier this month.A US man has become the first person in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig.David Bennett, 57, is doing well three days after the experimental seven-hour...
Palestinian-American man, 80, found dead after being detained in Israeli raid
Men stand next to a poster of Palestinian-American Omar Abdalmajeed Asad, 80, in the village of Jiljilya in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on January 12. ReutersAn 80-year-old Palestinian-American man was found dead after being handcuffed and detained during an...
Milwaukee Muslims intervene to stop redistricting and maintain Muslim voting power.
Milwaukee's Common Council approved the map (left) in November in decennial redistricting after the 2020 census. Following its veto by Mayor Tom Barrett, several Hispanic organizations proposed new maps to expand LatinX influence (map on right by Forward...
How Mo Salah Became the New King of Football
The Lord Mayor of Liverpool is wearing a nervous smile and a gold ceremonial chain the size of a saucer, the kind worn to greet royalty or a foreign dignitary—which feels appropriate, because it's not every day you get a visit from the Egyptian king. It's a cloudless...
US to give additional $308m in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan
Hundreds of Afghan men gathered to apply for humanitarian aid in Qala-e-Naw, Afghanistan, in December as country faces deepening crisis [File: Mstyslav Chernov/AP Photo] The United States will donate an extra $308m in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, the White House...
Afghan families receive familiar foods from Hunger Task Force
Hunger Task Force joined with Hanan Relief Group and Milwaukee Muslim Women's Coalition to provide culturally appropriate food to relocated Afghans.When Afghans arrived in Milwaukee in October and November, the first question on their minds was how to feed...
